After-shower body balm

This recipe is a basis of body balm, and can be adapted to many uses: it has a skin protecting effect, and you can add essentials to it, to make a flowery body balm, or a fruity hand cream, or even a mosquito-repellent cream with lemongrass ! It is perfect for a use after the shower.

In its simplest version: you can mix fresh aloe vera gel with a coconut or shea butter in your hand and apply on wet or dry skin.

Recipe

Like the face cream, this balm is an emulsion, but richer than the cream (the oil phase is more important). For the aqueous phase, we can used demineralized or floral water, and optionally aloe vera.

Whatever the origin of the vegetable butter (think about its the plant growing conditions, and about the length of transportation), they will all work by leaving a thick lipidic layer on the skin. The type of oil can be adjusted to your skin, but jojoba sweet almond always work ! By contrast, the ratio oil/butter/emulsifier is critical for the texture and stability.